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English name: Hydraulics Section
Parent institute: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Burgerlijke Bouwkunde (KULeuven-BWK), more
Thesaurus terms (20) : ; Climate change; Current models; Estuaries; Extreme value analysis; Hydraulics; Hydrology; Intertidal zonation; Modelling; Remote sensing; Rheology; River catchment hydrology; Sediment transport; Spectral wave model; Statistical analysis; Stochastic models; Turbulence; Uncertainty analysis; Water waves; Wave data
MRG keywords (3) : Construction; Hydrodynamics; Sediment mechanics/dynamics
Geographical term : ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf [Marine Regions]
Address:
Kasteelpark Arenberg 40
K.U.Leuven postbus 2448
3001 Heverlee
Belgium
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Tel.: +32-(0)16-32 16 63
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department
2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years.
3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
| Persons formerly associated with this organization (12) |
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| Abstract: |
The Hydraulics and Geotechnics section - Arenberg campus, conducts research that focuses on process understanding, numerical modelling and statistical analysis of aspects of the water cycle in the urban environment, in river systems, and in the coastal zone, including shelf seas and estuaries. The academic staff is responsible for teaching a number of courses related to the fields of hydraulics, hydrodynamics, hydraulic structures; urban, river and coastal engineering; and sediment mechanics and (eco-)morphodynamics. The research activities are mainly in the following domains of application:
- urban and river hydrology and hydraulics, covering all aspects of the water cycle in the urban environment as well as in river systems. Research topics are classified in 'rainfall', 'river hydrology and hydraulics' and 'urban hydrology and hydraulics';
- coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics with a main focus on waves and current modelling studies for design, operational or more fundamental aspects of coastal zone processes and also offshore applications;
- sediment mechanics with a focus on cohesive sediments (mixture of clay, silt, sand and organic matter);
- eco-hydromorphodynamics with a main focus on interactions between water, sediments and biota.
The section provides scientific consultancy services to third parties in the different research fields.
Note that there is also a Hydraulics and Geotechnics section - Bruges campus (KU Leuven, department of Civil Engineering). The focus there is on coastal and geotechnical engineering and more in particular on natural coastal protection, wave-structure-interaction and soil-structure-interaction under static, cyclic and seismic multidirectional loading. |
| Projects (19) |
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- BENCORE: Belgian Network for Coastal Reseach, more
- CISS: Bio-physical characterization of indicators of sediment stability in mudflats using remote sensing, more
- COSINUS: Prediction of cohesive sediment transport and bed dynamics in estuaries and coastal zones with integrated numerical simulation models, more
- Development of simulation models for two-phase flow on geophysical scale, with applications to sediment transport in estuaries and coastal zones, more
- ENCORA: European platform for coastal research: coordination action, more
- EXWACO: Statistical and physical aspects of extreme waves in coastal areas, more
- Feasibility study of two dimensional nutrient and sediment transport modelling for the Scheldt bassin and the controled inundation area Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde, more
- Geïntegreerde cohesief-sedimenttransportmodellering. II, more
- Hydrodynamica en sediment transport. Fundamentele aspecten bij een duurzaam beheer van zandige kustzones, more
- MAREBASSE: Management research and budgeting of aggregates in shelf seas related to end-users, more
- MAXWAVE: Maxwave - Extreme waves - Forecast and impact on marine structures, more
- MMARIE: Application of high performance computing techniques for the modelling of marine ecosytems, more
- MONAY: Monitoring Natuurherstel Ijzermonding. Monitoring van herstel van vegetatie, flora, invertebraten- en avifauna van de slikken, schorren en duinen langs de Ijzermonding, na ontmanteling van de oude Marinebasis te Lombardsijde, more
- Numerical modelling and experimental validation of wave interaction with impermeable sea dikes, more
- PROMISE: Pre-operational Modelling in the seas of Europe, more
- SUMANOS: Cluster Sustainable management of the North Sea, more
- The hydrodynamics of sediment transport. Fundamental aspects for a sustainable development of sandy coastal areas, more
- Verkennend onderzoek ter bepaling van het golfklimaat, more
- Wave database for the Flemish coast, more
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